Description
The Firebase Support & Chat Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1. This is due to the `firebase_auth()` function authenticating the request as the WordPress user whose email is supplied in the `user_email` POST parameter without verifying ownership of that email (no Firebase ID token signature/issuer/audience verification). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to log in as an arbitrary existing user — including an Administrator — by submitting that user's email address to the `acb_firebase_auth` AJAX action, resulting in full account takeover.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
devsabbirahmed Firebase Support & Chat Management
Default version status: unaffected
<= 3.1.1affected
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/90783d75-a255-4133-ac7b-32e0a70c8c69?source=cve ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/tags/3.1.1/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L237 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/trunk/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L237 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/tags/3.1.1/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L338 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/trunk/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L338 ↗